Debian, Intel 440BX2 Seattle, 2x Fujitsu UDMA33 IDE hard drives. In my bootscripts, hdparm enables DMA. I tried most all 2.4.0-acx up to 2.4.4-ac9, and then plain 2.4.5 today, over the past few months, with no corruption or instability. Today I moved to 2.4.5-ac1, the only different thing than normal was I enabled ACPI instead of APM. After 2 minutes in the fresh kernel on the console, I was make'ing an application, and the kernel gave some messages about reverting DMA mode, which I have never, ever seen before, followed by file I/O errors on lots of source files. I shutdown and rebooted, ext2fs detected my main disk as corrupt, and ran a check, spewing off screens and screens mentioning bad superblocks, incorrect times on inodes, and corrupt inodes within bad blocks [of which I have none]. I tar'd up what little I could salvage from my disk in single user mode where you run the fsck manually, when the kernel started giving messages about problems communicating with USB [I compile in the USB for Intel, and the HID, and have a Sidewinder joystick plugged in that I wasn't using]. The system was unuseable past that point, so I wiped clean and installed Win2K while I get my backups together. My hardware is fine, of course, everything is AOK now. The kernel had just gone crazy and mad. That's my experiences. Sorry it's long and I can't provide specific error messages, as I couldn't really do anything with my system in the state it was in. I hope that helps someone. Please CC me comments as I am not on the mailing list. Thank you. Cody Gould _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
